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View Poll Results: With gas going up, are you re-thinking your fishing outings?
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Yes, I admit that I'm starting to feel the pinch. I think I will cut back on my fishing. 
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To hell with gas prices. Fall is here, I'm forging full steam ahead and damn the wallet. 
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I'm a boat owner. Ouch. No can fish no more. 
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Wealthy boat owner. Fewer schmucks on the water! Me happy. 
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My name is nebE and I think this is all hsuB's fault. 
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09-01-2005, 11:09 PM
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I need spring!
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Weymouth, MA
Posts: 1,213
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Originally Posted by ThrowingTimber
less yuppies i farggin love it!!!!!!!!!!!  |
Yuppies got the $, they'll still be there. Should be less non english speaking though. |
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09-02-2005, 12:15 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: RockVegas
Posts: 3,228
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Originally Posted by CAL
Yuppies got the $, they'll still be there. Should be less non english speaking though.
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By "non english speaking", I assume you mean people from foreign countries that like to fish. Why is that a problem? I'm not trying to start anything, but I hear this very often and I know and understand the thought process about following the reg's and littering issues that are beaten like a rented mule. So, possibly a bad choice of words? Or, as I touched on, an incomplete thought process?
Again, I'm not trying to start any conflicts over the issue. I just think we need to be careful not to lump people into catagories because of nationality, or any other criteria.
Anyways, back to the topic at hand; Luckily, I saw a lot of this coming and got rid of the gas hog Dodge Ram that required a dedicated refinery in order to commute to work during the week and bought a Toyota pickup that I'm very happy with. I also downsized my boat. If I wasn't working so much, I'd fish as much as I normally do. Thankfully the mandatory overtimes are starting to taper off in time for the fall. Saved some vacation time, and will be hitting it pretty good soon. |
The future ain't what it used to be. --Yogi Berra
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09-02-2005, 02:35 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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I see a LOT fewer boats out on the water when I'm out on mine!!!
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LETS GO BRANDON
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09-02-2005, 05:41 AM
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#34
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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I will not do long runs on the boat anymore this season unless I get a fresh report that is fantastic from multiple sources. It is not worth it. Also I will not do any exploring on the boat until fuel prices come down.
I will do more surf casting. A night in my 4WD burns a lot less fuel then a day on the boat.
Charter guys have to be taking it in the butt. When you hit $750 for a half day charter a lot fewer people will show up. A recent poll of the fishermen here showed a lot fewer guys fishing already at 550/half day.
I bet you see some nice large power boats on the market at reasonable prices this winter!
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09-02-2005, 06:10 AM
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I need spring!
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Weymouth, MA
Posts: 1,213
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BigBo, a few times I've been told in broken english that they're taking shorts cuz they gotta feed the family. Figured if they can't afford food then they sure can't afford gas now either.
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09-02-2005, 06:40 AM
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#36
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: RockVegas
Posts: 3,228
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Well, like I said, that's wrong. I'm not the PC Police, but still don't think all should be labeled for the faults of some. My personal situation allows me to fish with some "non english speaking" people and all that I know follow the reg's as much as the rest of us.
Now, lets forget about gas prices and go fishing!  |
The future ain't what it used to be. --Yogi Berra
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09-02-2005, 08:36 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,690
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Originally Posted by TheRattBoy
I'm sure alot of the guys who live by the ocean love this, keeps people like me away...you know, the traveling fishermen. 
nebe 
It's fall , screw pump prices , i'm fishing.
Gas is cheaper in SoCo than it is in my town. |
honestly, i dont care if there are a lot of people around or hardly any... i just like to fish |
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09-02-2005, 08:52 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,036
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I am glad I filled up a couple of days ago at $2.60 full tank and ready to go for the wekend! Will it slow me down nope! I will eat spam, cat food, or anything else but miss a night of fall fishing? No way!
Steve and I are considering car pooling now instead of bringing those two thirsty V8s all the time.......
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09-02-2005, 09:11 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Easton, MA
Posts: 75
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No Lookin Back
Filled up my truck this morning, $72.00. My boat is fairly economical with a 115 HP Yammy. The only thing that gets me through the week is thinking about fishing on the weekend. Maybe 2 months left, best fishing of the season is ahead, I'm biting the bullet.
I do miss my tin boat. With the 30 HP Honda I would maybe burn 2 gallons of gas, some days only 1. It only weighed 500# so you did not even know you were towing it. Clammer bought it from me. What a visionary!
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Fishing from an 18' Parker called "Moor-Sea"
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09-02-2005, 10:33 AM
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Registered LUser
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Mashpee, MA
Posts: 643
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Rob Rockcrawler's Post: I just drove in from michigan, 3.69 a gallon out there. thankfuilly i was driving a rented 4 banger. Now its back to my truck. Its tough that the prices hit the roof during the fall run. Im scared of lookin at my visa statement around december, its gunna be a lean cristmas for friends and family, man i hope i catch large.
Last edited by Bass Babe; 09-03-2005 at 12:23 PM..
Reason: not me! forgot to log out
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The worst day fishing is better than the best day working. ...Wait a minute, my work IS fishing. Sweet.
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09-02-2005, 05:36 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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I am definately using the 14' tin boat way more then the 20' glass boat. So glad I did not get rid of it when I got the new boat 3 years ago. Paul
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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09-02-2005, 07:00 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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I used to be able to fill my truck on $20 and drive for a week!
Now it's going to take $20 to fill the tank on my ride on tractor to cut my grass!!! 
As for my boat,
I may have to start acceping (or asking for ) gas money when I take friends out !!!
I have definately changed some of my ways by fishing inside Boston harbor instead making LONG runs just to go cod fishing for fun!!! |
LETS GO BRANDON
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09-03-2005, 06:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: NY
Posts: 326
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This is all a good start for us to become fitter as a nation. More walking less driving.  |
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09-03-2005, 06:53 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: south hadley ma
Posts: 205
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Yep All ready had cut back now it will be even more. Good chance it will be only fresh water fishing this fall. Maybe one or two trips and that will be it. ThomT
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09-03-2005, 07:41 AM
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...and in person!
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Scituate MA
Posts: 999
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drove home wednesday saw prices up into the 3.37 range.
passed a station that still had 2.79 and got in the 10-car long line to fill up.
got home, grabbed all the gas jugs I could find and headed to the local sta for 2.99 gas. would have cost me more to drive all the way back to that lone 2.79 station.
parked the truck and didnt go into the office Thursday or Friday - that saved me 16 gal. my truck has been gettin like 13mpg I really need a new one. I wonder if these gas prices would be enough to offset the payments...
I am already scraping money for the rebuild of the house.
Gonna start walkin to my favorite fishin hole.
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09-04-2005, 06:29 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Outer Banks NC, Charlestown RI
Posts: 1,053
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$2.79 a gallon you guys are lucky, Down this way it's $3.29-$3.49 on the street and $4.00 at the marina, hell yeah it has halted my fishing....
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09-04-2005, 08:31 AM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,425
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Pretty much 3.50 here in VT
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Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!
Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?
Lets Go Darwin
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09-04-2005, 08:46 AM
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Scuttlebutt
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Westport,MA
Posts: 2,433
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I haven't left the house in about a week, but I believe gas prices here are about $2.59 to about $2.80..Slowing me down? Nope, I take the bus. Although, if it wasn't so high, i'd be driving right now.  Stop me from fishing? Heck no. I can walk or ride the lawn mower down.  The yuppies will hopefully be gone by tuesday. The markets even getting to expensive here, and we have to suffer the mark-ups 
It's all good, now I just need to catch something! 
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Wasajigifying -[ was - a - jig-i-fy-ing] - the concept of not knowing what the hell your saying.
My Photography Page!
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09-04-2005, 11:09 AM
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...and in person!
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Scituate MA
Posts: 999
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Originally Posted by 179
$2.79 a gallon you guys are lucky, ....
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That station had 3.35 the next morning. |
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09-04-2005, 12:35 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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I paid 2.79 last Tuesday and 3.05 last night. 3.05 is the cheapest around
Salisbury around the 95, 495 ramps
no I will not let it interfair, I will stop buying coffee at DD'S and start to bring my lunch to work and stop buying plugs and tackle, but I will not stop fishing
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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09-04-2005, 01:23 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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I just paid 3.30 in P-town. They couldn't use the defibulator cos I was too close to the gas pump. They kick started my heart and I'm OK except for the scream I hear in my head. It has a Scots accent. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaach!
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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09-04-2005, 04:10 PM
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Scuttlebutt
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Westport,MA
Posts: 2,433
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Update on todays price here.. $3.58 a gallon.... i gotta get out more...
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Wasajigifying -[ was - a - jig-i-fy-ing] - the concept of not knowing what the hell your saying.
My Photography Page!
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09-04-2005, 04:38 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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it's like being in a TAXI Cab!
when you drive now............but instead of watching the meter run,
your watching dollars vanish as the fuel gauge needle races for the finish line of empty.  |
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09-04-2005, 06:48 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,690
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09-04-2005, 08:40 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
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Just got back from the Cape.
Gassed up here at $2.89 on Wed.
Got to Buzzards Bay, gassed up at the Citgo/7-11 at the end of Head of the Bay Rd for the same $2.89.
Stopped there for coffee on the way to the Canal, still $2.89.
Drove thru BB area. 3 no-name stations were all around $3.09. The Texaco at the RR bridge rotary was $3.41. No name next to Cumbies was $3.15, the Valero was $3.25, Citgo at Xtra Mart was $3.14, the Exxon at the Bourne rotary was $2.99 as was Sorenti's Shell at the Sag.
Next day--Citgo at 7-11 went to $3.29, the no names were $3.25, Citgo at Xtra Mart was $3.17, Exxon was $3.29, Sorenti's was up to $3.39 and the Texaco in BB was $3.41.
As of this morning---7-11 still $3.29 (which I gassed up at before leaving), no names all $3.25 (and, BTW, "cash only" no credit cards"), Texaco in town was $3.51, Valero was $3.25, Xtra Mart $3.41, Exxon $3.29 and I didn't get as far as Sorenti's.
Citgo at 7-11, $3.29. Citgo at Xtra Mart, $3.41---wassup wid dat 
When I got back here, the cheapest I saw was $3.39 at Hess. The Exxon down the road was $3.79  |
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09-05-2005, 12:38 AM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
Posts: 6,358
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Hess around the corner was 3.06. Ive gone through 75 bux and change from friday to just now. |
Domination takes full concentration..
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09-05-2005, 12:43 AM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
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Hess around the corner was 3.06. Ive gone through 75 bux and change from friday to just now. |
What gets me with Hess is, they have several refineries in NJ that aren't affected in the least by the hurricane. |
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09-05-2005, 07:52 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,036
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It definatly is starting to hurt, but all I need are 12 more weeks!!
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09-05-2005, 08:18 AM
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Below Me
Join Date: May 2003
Location: low
Posts: 2,909
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it now costs me $85-95 to fill my truck....
unreal 
I'll be doing a lot more walking this fall.... |
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09-05-2005, 03:52 PM
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Wave Jumper
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: On The Edge!
Posts: 443
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Originally Posted by uffah!!
You actually think and believe it would have been better with The Thief fron the East Kerry?????????
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ABSOLUTELY !!!! At least Kerry doesn't own any oil companies or have any royalties coming from the Middle east to him.
Bush is all for having the price go out of sight, the higher it goes ... the more he makes, plain and simple.
And that clown he calls his VP is making a fortune on feeding the military in the Middle east.
So where does Bush and Chaney not feel the pinch of the high prices? They don't feel it, we pay for it and they collect on it ... I'm sure they feel real bad for us, they're crying all the way to the bank.
If any president needed to be shot it should be him, he can't even finish what daddy started and failed at in the Middle east, he's a loser just like his father was. |
Insanity is a long and winding road ... I think I finally made it there.
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